drone/gitrpc/hash/hash.go
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// Copyright 2022 Harness Inc. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Polyform Free Trial License
// that can be found in the LICENSE.md file for this repository.
package hash
import (
"crypto/sha256"
"fmt"
"hash"
)
// Type defines the different types of hashing that are supported.
// NOTE: package doesn't take hash.Hash as input to allow external
// callers to both calculate the hash themselves using this package, or call gitrpc to calculate the hash,
// without the caller having to know internal details on what hash.Hash implementation is used.
type Type string
const (
// TypeSHA256 represents the sha256 hashing method.
TypeSHA256 Type = "sha256"
)
// AggregationType defines the different types of hash aggregation types available.
type AggregationType string
const (
// AggregationTypeXOR aggregates a list of hashes using XOR.
// It provides commutative, self-inverse hashing, e.g.:
// - order of elements doesn't matter
// - two equal elements having the same hash cancel each other out.
AggregationTypeXOR AggregationType = "xor"
)
// Aggregator is an abstraction of a component that aggregates a list of values into a single hash.
type Aggregator interface {
// Empty returns the empty hash of an aggregator. It is returned when hashing an empty Source
// or hashing a Source who's hash is equal to an empty source. Furthermore, the following is always true:
// `Hash(s) == Append(Empty(), s)` FOR ALL sources s.
Empty() []byte
// Hash returns the hash aggregated over all elements of the provided source.
Hash(source Source) ([]byte, error)
// Append returns the hash that results when aggregating the existing hash
// with the hashes of all elements of the provided source.
// IMPORTANT: size of existing hash has to be compatible (Empty() can be used for reference).
Append(hash []byte, source Source) ([]byte, error)
}
// New returns a new aggregator for the given aggregation and hashing type.
func New(t Type, at AggregationType) (Aggregator, error) {
// get hash factory method to ensure we fail on object creation in case of invalid Type.
hfm, hashSize, err := getHashFactoryMethod(t)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
switch at {
case AggregationTypeXOR:
return &xorAggregator{
hfm: hfm,
hashSize: hashSize,
}, nil
default:
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown aggregation type '%s'", at)
}
}
// hashFactoryMethod returns a hash.Hash implementation.
type hashFactoryMethod func() hash.Hash
// getHashFactoryMethod returns the hash factory method together with the length of its generated hashes.
// NOTE: the length is needed to ensure hashes of an empty source are similar to hashes of `a <XOR> a`.
func getHashFactoryMethod(t Type) (hashFactoryMethod, int, error) {
switch t {
case TypeSHA256:
return sha256.New, sha256.Size, nil
default:
return nil, -1, fmt.Errorf("unknown hash type '%s'", t)
}
}